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Leadership Practices and Measures of Success
By Cherryl R. Thames May 23, 2017
Leadership
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LEADERSHIP
• The best leaders follow their hearts as well as their heads,
and they never ever leave their principles behind.
- Johnnetta B. Cole,
President Emerita of Spelman College
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Leadership Overview
• Leadership Practices
• Leadership Measures of Success
• Leadership Assessment Tool
• Leadership Development Priority Worksheet
• Leadership Development Action Plan
• Leadership Principles/Values
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What is Leadership?
• “… Leadership is the ability to bring people together to
accomplish a common purpose in the midst of conditions of great
change.”
– The Forum Corporation
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Leadership Practices
• Interpreting conditions within and external to your
organization that affect you and your work group.
• Shaping the vision and strategy to provide meaning for the
work of the group.
• Mobilizing individuals with different ideas, skills, and
values to carry out the work of the group.
• Inspiring people to achieve results.
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Leadership Practices
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Measures of Success
A Leader: • Shapes the vision in a way that inspires others
– Aligns personal vision and goals with the bigger picture
• Models the behaviors expected of others – Maintains a positive
attitude
• Upholds business/organizational values – Defines expectations
for self and others
• Seeks and acts upon opportunities to improve performance –
Challenges the status quo
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Measures of Success (cont’d)
A Leader:
• Directs performance improvement
– Monitors continuous improvement strategies
• · Applies Strategic Thinking
– Ensures that scope and impacts are maximized when new ideas
are introduced
• Utilizes problem solving strategies
– Promotes use of relevant resources and experienced
individuals
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“ The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths,
making our weaknesses irrelevant”.
Theme from his book “The Next
Society”……
Building positive enterprises for the world through
strength-based change.
Quote from the late Peter Drucker
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Leadership Assessment Tool
Skill/Behavior Your Competency/
Skill Level (0-3)
0 = low – 3 = high
Position Level of Importance
(1-3) 1 = low – 3 = high
Shapes the vision in a way that inspires others Models the
behaviors expected of others Upholds business /organizational
values Seeks and acts upon opportunities to optimize performance
Directs performance improvement Applies Strategic Thinking Utilizes
problem solving strategies Other:
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Leadership Development Priority Worksheet
• After completing the self-assessment on the Leadership
Development Assessment Tool, list the top three skill/behavior
indicators that requires developmental action on the following
Priority Worksheet. List each from highest to lowest priority.
Priority Worksheet
• Priority # 1 /
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• Priority # 2 /
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• Priority # 3 /
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Leadership Development Action Plan
Specific Skills/Behaviors Requiring Development
Development Action(s) You Will Take
(Identify how and when)
Measurement Goals: Desired Results:
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“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows
the way.” - John C. Maxwell
